Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know®

“Changed diets resulted in GHG emission savings of 34–64% compared to the ‘business-as-usual’ scenario.

reflectors or mirrors in outer space. However, “the Committee has chosen to not consider these technologies because of the substantial time (>20 years), cost (trillions of dollars), and technology challenges associated with these issues.

The cap-and-trade system is designed to achieve a comparable target level of overall economy-wide emissions reductions as the other pollution-reduction strategies while (1) rewarding the companies that are the most innovative or efficient at cutting pollution and (2) making certain that the target level of emissions is achieved at the least possibl

The second category focuses on regulatory policies aimed at either increasing the use of clean energy or reducing the emissions of GHGs.

A carbon tax is a tax on the carbon content of hydrocarbon fuels or on the carbon dioxide emitted by those fuels when they are converted into energy. Hydrocarbons fuels—such as coal, oil, and natural gas—contain carbon, which turns into carbon dioxide after combustion. In economics, the total economic harm caused by a pollutant such as carbon dioxi

A key point is that the investment is not the same as the net economic cost, because many of the investments reduce energy consumption and thus generate savings. In addition, investment in new technology is generally associated with higher productivity and economic growth.

Climate Change” was published in 2009 by the International Institute for Environment and Development. It found that the mean “net present value of climate change impacts” in an emissions scenario similar to the one we are now on was $1240 trillion with no adaptation, but the value was only $890 trillion with adaptation. On the other hand, the autho

you are not removing net carbon dioxide from the air with carbon capture and storage at a coal plant; you are just not adding new carbon dioxide into the air).

impacts means global economic growth of some 2.24% a year rather than 2.30%.